Johnny's back from the Gilliland Ranch in Washington.. & "OH BOY"!

The Yakama Indians of the east slope of the Cascade Mountains of Washington State have a legend, persisting to this day, of the "Stick People" or little ones that live high in the hills. Some hills are sacred places for the Stick People and should not be trammeled. If they are visited, the Stick People will do you harm. Also, the Stick People do a lot of unprovoked mischief, such as stealing your car keys. [Stories told to me - Bruce G. Marcot, Ph.D. Research Wildlife Ecologist - during a May 1997 invited visit into the sacred Yakama forest land -- by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists working closely with the Yakama Indian Nation.]

Yakama Indian William Charley told this story to McWhorter about the Tah-tah kle' -ah (Owl-Woman-Monster) in 1918. "Before the tribes lived peaceably in this country, before the last creation, there were certain people who ate Indians whenever they could get them. They preferred and hunted children, as better eating. These people, the Tah-tah kle' -ah, were taller and larger than the common human. They ate every bad thing known such as frogs, lizards, snakes, and other things that Indians do not eat. They talked the Indian language, and in that way might fool the Indians. There were five of them, all sisters. But at the last creation they came up only in California. Two were seen there. They were women, tall big, women, who lived in a cave."

"One time the Shastas (Shasta Indians) were digging roots and camped. They knew that the two Tah-tah kle' -ah were about, were in that place. The Indians were careful, but the Tah-tah kle'-ah caught one little boy, not to eat, but to raise up and live with them. The boy thought he would be killed, but he was not. The Tah-tah kle'-ah had him several days...[One day], when they were out of sight, the boy hurried away. He ran fast, traveled over rough, wild places, and at last reached his own people... After many years the two Tah-tah-kle'-ah were destroyed. None knew how, but perhaps by a higher power. Their cave home became red hot and blew out. The monster-women were never seen again, never more heard of. but they have always been talked about as the most dangerous beings on earth. One other of the five sisters was drowned. From her eye, all owls were created. The person or power that killed her said to her, 'From now on, your eye will be the only part of you to act. At night it will go to certain birds, the owls'."

The only way to effectively begin your quest (in my opinion), is to go out there yourself and attempt to see/capture your own experience. Then and only then will I maybe listen and pay a bit more attention of what you bring to the table. After you've spent several 100 hours out in the field and gone through the hours of footage frame by frame, then and only then will you have moved closer in trying to become a real enthusiast (again, this is only my opinion and I'm sure you have your own).

Originally posted by DimensionalDetective
So how many hours have you combed through now, JA? At the half way mark yet? LOL.

Another curiosity I had, knowing you were filming in Gen-3 IR, is have you come across any anomolies that you didn't see at the time with the naked eye that have really taken you by suprise?

I ask because my G/F and I while filming in Nightshot a few nights ago seemed to have captured something very bizarre, that neither of us saw with our bare eyes. It's quite fleeting, but we never saw it while we were watching with our bare eyes. Weird to say the least.

Originally posted by ZeroGhost
I only push Mufon because there is some scientific standards and cooperative efforts spanning disciplines. This is much bigger than video and photographic evidence. Like you said, "...capture your own experience."

"Seeing is bereaving" our own ignorance.

ZG

Originally posted by JohnnyAnonymous

The only way to effectively begin your quest (in my opinion), is to go out there yourself and attempt to see/capture your own experience. Then and only then will I maybe listen and pay a bit more attention of what you bring to the table. After you've spent several 100 hours out in the field and gone through the hours of footage frame by frame, then and only then will you have moved closer in trying to become a real enthusiast (again, this is only my opinion and I'm sure you have your own).

Johnny

Originally posted by JohnnyAnonymous
But to answer your original query.. Yes, when I first started getting into IR photography and videography, I did have a number of events that I could not see by the naked eye. And only saw these "things" in the infrared frequency. I've been leaning for quite some time to the idea that many UFO's and "other unknown things" are only visible in the Infrared spectrum. I also believe that there is phenomena other than UFO's that also can be caught with the use of IR. In fact it's quite possible that many of the captures at the Gilliland Ranch were of this type, but this is just my own personal conjecture and I have no way of backing up those thoughts/theories. It's more like a feeling...

And now back to the video reviewing.. (oh my eyes... my eyes...)

Johnny

Originally posted by feydrautha


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